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Virtual Vigilantes – Eggheads Are Watching the Watchers
Over at at Henry Jenkins blog and MIT’s Center for Future Civic Media site, part one of Herald founder Urizenus Sklar’s think piece Watching the Watchers: Power and Politics in Second Life traces the evolution of both the online world griefing phenomena and the virtual security operations that have emerged to counter griefers. Posting the [...]
Full StorySaga of Second Life vs. Shameless Blatant Furries
The Saga of Second Life is a provocative six minute video which argues M Linden’s the pursuit of a corporate-friendly suburban-style virtual world is doomed to massive fail – and at odds with the interests of the players that built Second Life. This is not the sort of message that Linden fanboys enjoy hearing, so [...]
Full StoryEstonia Annexed As Soviet Woodbury Expands !!!
Over the last 24 hours, Soviet Woodbury annexed both the Estonia and Animation sims to double the land under Soviet control – a grim confirmation of the worst fears of Kalel Venkman’s Justice League Unlimited vigilantes and their allies in Second Life. Estonia Annexed – LindenWorld blocked from connecting to Glorious Future sim Is this [...]
Full StoryWorlds Collide at Virtual Pet Memorial Service
by MIllennium Sands, Urban Riots Desk Danny06 Aya is a grown up guy in First Life, but in Second Life he’s a boy. His real life typist suffers from a traumatic brain injury (TBI), and it seems likely that his avatar reflects the true state of the way he experiences his life. When Danny06 Aya’s [...]
Full StoryLinden Lab’s New ToS: Some Things Improve While Taking Something Away
Linden Lab has unveiled today its new Terms of Service, the backbone of the interaction between the user and the Lab when it comes to using Second Life. While some of the new ToS is very much welcome, there are hidden aspects that put a damper on things that have happened in the past. First [...]
Full StoryThe Epic Fail of Second Life Groups
The hypergrowth needed to create an online mass media continues to elude Second Life – but why? If Second Life is meant to be more than a 3D Potemkin village construction kit, one might expect the group and chat systems to be top priority – yet chat remains perma-gimped due to basic architectural flaws which [...]
Full StoryREVIEW: Sutherland Dam Theatre of The Absurd
For those who missed last night’s performance, Crap Mariner has captured some of the zeitgeist of the Sutherland Dam theatrical troupe’s performances with a spoof of M Linden’s fixation on holding avatar based meetings in the Second Life game world. But a superficial treatment of these performances does not do justice to the effort noted [...]
Full StoryMayor of Victoriana: $30,000 Wasted, Lindens Killed The Dream
LittleBlackDuck Lindsay – mayor of Victoriana and Tinytoriana – announced his departure from Second Life in a scathing pair of notecards distributed to residents of Victoriana’s 13 sims over the last two days. While this is a sad day for Linden Lab partisans, fans of LittleBlackDuck’s communities remain hopeful that Victoriana and Tinytoriana will be [...]
Full StorySkills Hak Tags Over 4000 Copybot Capable Avatars
Skills Hak is claiming significant success for the Gemini Cybernetics CDS anti-copybot system, and recently told the Herald "we looked up the number of uniquely flagged avatars using malicious viewers, the number is 4424. There have been around 70 appeals of which we granted 11, none of them were false posities, but extenuating circumstances". When [...]
Full StorySuperman In Disgrace – JLU Mole Haruhi Thespian Tells All
In an exclusive interview, Haruhi Thespian describes the infiltration of Kalel Venkman’s Justice League Unlimited of Second Life – a daring mission that led to the exposure of the JLU’s formerly secret wiki. The publication of the wiki resulted in revelations of the virtual superhero’s coordinated program of secret surveillance and harassment of other community [...]
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